Debs husband says a huge difference between The Band of Brothers and The Pacific is that while the German army was hot mustard the Marines were fighting against a fanatical enemy who would rather die than surrender. I salute any and all who served in either theater of war. My dad served in the army as a medic. He was tough as nails.
I actually once saw Richard Speight Jr. on set of a TV show I was a P.A. on. He wasn't a cast member though, he was just visiting a friend or something. I was professional however and didn't go up to talk to him.
I'm glad they didn't modernize the language used by the men. Today there's so much swearing and disrespect in movies, that real life military discipline is a myth. And back talk is so expected in film dialogue you'd wonder how anyone got anything done.
You could really feel the deep bond between not just the actors. But the characters in this scene casually just talking about and making fun of each other. Getting wounded as if it were nothing.
1:02 he took a bite off of his plate…… that’s funny shit. Mainly because I’ve done it. HAHAHAHAHA HAHAHAHAHA HAHAHAHAHA HAHAHAHAHA HAHAHAHAHA the other guy didn’t need it
“And George Luz here, has never been hit. You’re one lucky bastard” “Takes one to know one Skip” “Eh, consider us blessed.” Kinda chilling once you know what happens to “Skip” Muck not more than a week after this exchange.
and the fact Luz was on his way into the same foxhole when it got hit.. followed up by the shell not exploding on him and Lip minutes later. Lucky bastard indeed.
1:10 George Luz. The luckiest guy in Easy. In D-day on the plane we swapped seats with Cobb. Then Cobb got hit and missed the jump. At Carenten he and Lt Welsh ran the gauntlet while the guys behind them all got mown down by the MG42. Later a mortar shell landed on his and Lipton's foxhole but it was a dud.
“ Consider us blessed “ sadly most of those guys would not leave Bastogne . For those that survived cannot imagine the nightmares they would have to live with .
The thing with the Bastogne part of the show, it did a good job of showing the diminishment of the company after being through something like that. With key people dying or changing from it like Toye, Guinere, Compton etc The Band went on but there was a heavy feeling that could never be the same as before.
I like how they make the nra soldiers advance in such a tightly packed manner and not see the pla soldiers right in front of them, almost like this was some sort of propoganda film
